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From  THE  NATIONAL  SECURITY  LEAGUE 


19  WEST  44th  STREET, 


NEW  YORK 


E.  L.  Harvey,  Publicity  Director 


A HOLIDAY  MESSAGE  TO 

OUR  YOUNG  FIGHTING  MEN 


( Contributed  by  GEORGE  ADE  to  the  National  Security  League’s  cam- 
paign of  Patriotism  Through  Education.) 

We  must  win  the  big  war  or  else  revise  all  moral  codes,  rewrite 
all  proverbs  and  adopt  a brand  new  set  of  rules  to  govern  conduct. 

We  have  accepted  certain  time-honored  adages  as  self  evident 
truths. 

We  found  them  in  our  early  copy-books  and  we  grew  up  on  them 
and  repeated  them  so  often  that,  naturally,  we  came  to  think  that 
they  could  be  relied  upon. 

Then  Germany  came  along  with  an  intensely  modern  variety  of 
Ethics  bearing  the  label  of  Kultur. 

The  new  medicine  is  not  taken  internally  or  rubbed  on  as  a lini- 
ment but  you  have  it  shot  into  you  by  a large  gun. 

Unless  we  refuse  to  take  the  treatment,  everything  that  we  ever 
believed  in  will  be  overruled,  discarded  and  thrown  into  the  alley. 

If  Germany  is  not  licked  to  a standstill,  we  might  as  well  begin 
to  memorize  and  humbly  accept  the  following: 

Dishonesty  is  the  best  policy. 

Be  as  mean  as  a skunk  and  you  will  be  happy. 

Blessed  are  the  child-murderers,  for  they  shall  inherit  the  earth. 

Be  sure  you  are  right  handy  with  fire-arms,  then  go  ahead. 

An  evil  reputation  is  better  than  riches. 

Truth  crushed  to  earth  will  not  rise  again  if  the  crushing  is  done 
in  a superior  and  efficient  manner. 

Be  virtuous  and  you  will  be  miserable. 

Thrice  armed  is  he  who  goes  around  picking  quarrels. 

Might  makes  right. 

Hell  on  earth  and  hatred  for  all  men. 

Do  unto  others  as  you  suspect  that  they  might  do  unto  you  if 
they  ever  got  to  be  as  disreputable  as  you  are. 

God  helps  the  man  who  helps  himself  to  his  neighbor’s  house  and 
his  fields  and  his  unprotected  women. 


Those  don’t  sound  right,  do  they? 

The  old  ones  that  we  learned  first  of  all  are  not  yet  out  of  date. 
.Suppose  we  don’t  revise  them. 


